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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 295 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 229 1 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 164 0 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 120 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 78 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 66 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 60 0 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 54 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 51 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 40 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Henry Clay or search for Henry Clay in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters and times of the Tylers. (search)
zed by the exhibition of the talent of such men as Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Tyler, Leigh, Archer, Badger, Berrien, Preston, Wkson, Crawford, and Calhoun. He made, during the debate on Clay's tariff resolutions in 183-32, a three days speech, of mucompromise Tariff of 1833, whose principle he suggested to Mr. Clay, its patron. In 1833-34 he sustained Clay's resolutionClay's resolutions of censure upon President Jackson for the removal of the deposits, which he thought an unwarrantable exercise of power, thguilty of great duplicity on the bank question, and accuses Clay of apostacy. We think it clear that President Tyler acted ifficulty. If the difference was only slight, why did not Mr. Clay accept Ewing's bill as it stood? The President implored ty to the leading members of the Whig party, or apostacy to Clay in his connection with the bank bills. The men on each sidich they acted, and also as to the motives attributed to Henry Clay and some of his political associates and allies. It is
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of honorable B. H. Hill before the Georgia branch of the Southern Historical Society at Atlanta, February 18th, 1874. (search)
attracts them they will scatter themselves. So we shall never get rid of these creatures from Congress by portraying their characters. They cannot see the mischief they are doing, and, if they could, they have not manhood enough to be made ashamed. But abolish the high salaries that tempt and feed them, and they will leave the places that furnish to them no other allurements. If high salaries continue, the greatest age of American statesmanship is in the past. We shall never have another Clay or Webster or Calhoun in the National Councils. These great men served willingly on a salary of fifteen hundred dollars and less. The Butlers and Chandlers—with their negro and carpet-bag allies—all but the spawn of a mad revolution—need seven thousand five hundred dollars to support their dignity! It is sad to see a Republic dying as other Republics have died, and the people still unable to see the evils which work death until life is extinct. But one comfort the Southern people and th<